Methods and devices for accessing protected applications

Methods and devices for accessing protected applications. A client device accessing a protected application executing on the application server is provided. The client device configured to establish a session between the client device and the application server based on an exchange of authentication credential information between the client device and the application server; generate an authentication token from the authentication credential information associated with the protected application; transfer the authentication token to the remote server for storage at the remote server; and transmit a directive to the remote server to access the protected application executing on the application server, where the directive includes an identifier associated with the authentication token for accessing the protected application.